Posts from February 2009

February 14, 2009

Come to think of it, it never occurred to me that maps might just become very unhandy for people like me. Imagine the frustration I have to go through by reading a map and suddenly halting in the middle of the road because I can’t understand where the last road ‘went to’.

Fortunately, Cynthia A. Brewer made an excellent idea over eight years ago when she began creating maps that can accommodate both color blind individuals and those with normal vision. She recommended using map colors which are far away from the confusion lines like blue, light green, whitish green, gray magenta and dark green, since these colors are the least likely to look like any other color to a color blind individual.

I sure hope this catches on with the rest of the world's map-making industries. Like most people, I'd like to see Paris at least once in my life.